Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Progress Toward Artificial Photosynthesis?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070312152123.htm

This article is about how plants can practice of artificail photosynthesis. Scientist help the plants by giving them a metal catalysts. It help speeds up and is capeable of greaking down C-O into CO2. They also used metal free catalysts and see what it would do.

What is the chemical equation for photosynthesis? CO2 + H2O + light enerdy= ( CH2O)+ O2
What organelles are involved in this process? cell membrane, cell wall, cytoplasm, chorophylls.
List three things you learned from this article in your own words. Plants could make artificial photosynthesis. Use many organelles in the process. It is just as good as regular photosynthesis.
What impact would the absence of this process have on the biosphere? It would make all the hard work of the team good for nothing but there would still natural photosynthesis.

1 comment:

Ms. Smith said...

The teams work is good for nothing, you can't think of anything useful for an artificial energy producing reaction?